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The elimination or control  of Candida has resulted in fairly good  success.
But it still continues to pose diagnostic problems.  Some answers here.

This presentation is not intended as a "cure".  It is intended for educational
purposes.  Things you should know about this fungus and the devastation 
it brings to the human body which are not generally known. 

People suffer from "who knows what" ... but they suffer ...  
Typical health approaches do  not seem to "hit the spot" in diagnosing it.

Many things bring it about.  Think of how often you have been subjected 
to taking antibiotics.  Possibly had to endure chemo too.  
Then there is your diet and in general, your life style.

Consider Stress ...  and our 24 hours-a-day, seven days a week pressure which workers are under in our work requirements and entrepreneurial activities.

These are just a few considerations.  There are many more.
 

If you are eating antibiotic-laced foods or taking, or have taken antibiotics, 
you may be suffering from CANDIDA.  It is that simple.  

What do you have to do to get rid of the fungus ?

Start by eating correctly, and  by eliminating unnatural additives. 

 When you have a life threatening infection or one that can do you 
serious harm you should agree to take antibiotics.

Know that:    Antibiotic pills and shots  cause candidiasis.

Taking more drugs is not going to correct the candidiasis problem. 
Believe that you can improve your health and be well helps.
 
But start "living correctly" --- which will be a big step to cure candida --- the yeast  problem.

 You control the opportunity to be well. It will require some effort.

   Why are millions of pounds of aspirin sold each year to ease pain?  This is telling us that we are doing
 something wrong and have to go to the health system to try to get health situation ailments "help".

 Reports indicate that hundreds of millions of dollars are spent each year 
for the treatment of candida disease.   It is not being cured by treatment.  

Only by living correctly do you have a good chance to do it.
We all want to Enjoy Good Health and we can if we are free from disease. 

 Candida will give you much discomfort.  You may not face death as with 
cardiovascular disease and cancer.   But it will give you discomfort and agony. 

NOTE: Are you clear about this?  Several have expressed some confusion about "which is which and what is what"? 
  Start with "candida albicans"  then of "candida" and the result = "Candidiasis".   That's the order!

 Yeast infections, are common disorders.  It is one of a normal colonic flora constituent growing outside the colon,
 and can be related to any disorder in any system or organ in which candida albicans is growing. 

It should not be growing.

 At the turn of the century candida albicans  was a  rare disease. It had been reported a few times in terminal patients in hospitals and in other patients with obviously failing immune systems.  It was nearly unknown prior to World War II. 

The rates of candidiasis and  other diseases like cancer, diabetes, 
heart disease and others have been growing  explosively. 

Deaths from infectious diseases have increased too.

Candida can relate to vaginal yeast infections, but it is much more. 

Acne, sinusitis, bronchitis, urinary tract infections, ear infections, sensitivity to smoke and fumes, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, various mental problems and dysfunctions, athletes foot, constipation, diarrhea, coughs and various other problems have been related to candidiasis.  

Yeast infections  are so common that many of us are aware of this health problem. 

They are very routine, troublesome and difficult to treat.

Modern medicine has not had much success treating this disorder.   

Part of the difficulty is that this disease, along with most chronic disorders associated with aging, viral diseases,
 cancer and autoimmune disorders, does not fit or respond well to the modern medical paradigm. 

It is a disorder which may well be cured by right living.

 We now quote from others:   "Modern medical treatment has had its greatest successes from following the theory
 that disease can be cured by destroying a microbe that has invaded the body. Modern medicine born
on the battlefields of Europe and America has a distinctly military view of life.

It is a "them versus us" mentality. When the them is a specific microbe,  a specific treatment 
is applied to  destroy the invading enemy. 

This is the basis of almost all modern pharmacology and modern allopathic medicine.   As long as this is the
dominant model and all diseases must be treated within the confines of  allopathic theory,
there is no real hope that orthodox medical physicians will cure candidiasis."  

The first thing to do is to completely rethink our view  of the problem.

Candida albicans is the organism blamed for the problem. It is a normal resident of the body. If you do a stool culture on a perfectly healthy person, you will find candida albicans.  If you do a culture on a person with a yeast infection, you will  find
 candida albicans. This has been part of the controversy about this disease. 

In the medical model, if the villainous microbe is present, there is disease.  
Treating doctors say— see here it is, candida, that is the problem. 
Let's kill it and that will cure the disease! 

Other doctors say candida can't be the problem. It is always there!

They claim since we all have candida in our systems that it can't be a problem, because in the allopathic
view all diseases are caused by other life forms which are not meant to be in the body.

The entire way of thinking of allopathic medicine is to find a guilty microbe and annihilate it.

You can't do that with candida.  It is always there. If you could get rid of it, 
it would come back.  So you run into solution problems. 

Many physicians won't admit that candidiasis exists because it does not fit their paradigms of thinking
about disease. Other physicians admit that it exists, but they try to treat it by eradicating
the candida following allopathic theory, which cannot be done. 

They are right in recognizing  the disease, but the standard medical way of thinking still dominates their
approach in treatment. They fail in treating it because they still view the world by the medical model
which fails to consider symbiosis and natural balance. If these factors are not foremost in
the doctors thinking while treating candidiasis, failure is virtually guaranteed.

Some physicians who use other paradigms of viewing and treating candidiasis 
have had total success in restoring their patients to health. 

It seems to be a matter of proper perspective, doesn't it ? 

As a measure of having this model of balance with nature built into our thinking, what does your doctor do with antibiotics? When he or she gives you a prescription for antibiotics, do they also give you a prescription to take when the course of 
antibiotics is finished so that you can restore normal flora? 

If they don't, they are not considering the necessary balance of nature in your body.  Proper thinking regarding this
balance of nature does not seem to be a common consideration in modern American medical practice.

If we are to successfully treat candida, it is imperative that we look at  our model of how life and diseases work. We must look objectively  at this disorder and its causes.

No universal model exists in health !   Life works on many planes and uses many mechanisms.

We must change models for different types of problems.  There is no unified field theory that covers
all the possibilities, as exists for physics. 

Albert Einstein finished the details of this uniting electro-magnetic, nuclear and 
gravity forces into one model at the beginning of the last century. 

Albert was noted to have been a fairly bright physicist, and even his theory has
 some difficulties in application. The science of physics has not legislated
 one school of thinking into dominance by law.  We have been able to
 make changes in Einstein's theories as needed to make
 physical models fit with reality.  

BUT ....   We have not been so fortunate in health care.

     In health there are fundamental differences in the models of disease and health
 held by various schools of healing. There has never been a movement in 
Western medicine that has made any significant inroads into the
 dominant  theories of the different branches of physicians. 

Allopaths, Medical Doctors, have continued to maintain political dominance 
and rely on prescriptions to kill disease organisms. 

Chiropractors have continued to rely on balancing the nervous system to restore normal function. Homeopaths have continued to stimulate the body to 
respond to  conditions by providing very small doses of toxins which 
stimulate the body to react to the disease state.

      The allopathic system has been great at curing infectious disease. 

It does not work at all on other illnesses like candidiasis.

The system that works for treating candidiasis works great for dealing with organisms that work in symbiosis with the body. It may not work as well with pathogens that are not in symbiosis with the body.  

First, candida is always present in the body, particularly the colon. 
A healthy colony of candida can always be found there.  

 Diphtheria and other fatal disease organisms that allopathic treatments work 
so well to correct are not normal in the body. They are not meant to be there.

 Candida is. 

Having a massive colony of the fungus growing in profusion there is not normal, 
nor is it in other locations. It is meant to be in balance with the body's other flora.

     Why does this overgrowth of candida albicans  happen? 
In understanding why it happens, we can see how to approach curing it. 

Until we gain this understanding, all the treatments are no more than wild guesses.

 Where the underlying premise is wrong, these guesses are doomed to the total
 failure we have seen in modern medicines handling of this disease! 
The surest way to check a physician's understanding of this
 disorder is to ask how they are going to treat it. 

A doctor that does not understand the physiology of candidiasis is likely 
to be of very little use to you, and may do more harm than good.

     The normal anatomy, physiology and balance of life are where this disease has its origin.  Balance is the key word. In our bodies we have billions of our own cells. 
We also have billions of rambling microbes and other fellow travelers. 
Some  of these are not harmful or helpful. Some are crucial to life.
 
Others, if given the chance, can kill or make us sick. 

Millions of types of "bugs" can make us sick, from colds to most infectious types
 of disease. Medicine has shined in eradicating or controlling those
 diseases that specific pathogenic microbes cause. 

This is particularly true where these organisms are not normal residents of the
 body. If it is a specific  microbe or a bacterium that causes the disease, then we develop antibiotics to single out and attack that life form.  It dies, and the body recovers very rapidly. This is great.

     Many of us are alive because of antibiotics.  
I think they are great--- when used appropriately!  
 
For pathogenic bacteria antibiotics are THE cure. 
But they don't work on viruses, most fungi and a host of 
other disease causing life forms. 

Yet billions of prescriptions are written each year to give antibiotics to patients suffering from viral infections. This is a useless treatment! It has contributed 
to the increase in antibiotic resistant microbes making this terrific form 
of cure less and less effective in even curing infectious disease!

     Some other life forms are just sort of neutral. 
They cause no harm, they are just there doing their thing within our bodies. 

Candida is one of those. It is not a microbe. It is a fungus. 

It is interesting that they are one of a very large kingdom. We think of things being animal or plant. There are other kingdoms as well. Funguses are a separate kingdom. There are more types of fungus than there are mammals. 
They are more different than mammals as well. 
 

Fungi include mushrooms, lichen on rocks, mildew, athletes foot fungi, etc.  One is candida albicans.

All of this life form are not animal, they are more like plants, except they do not have chlorophyl.  They, like animals live off other living or dead  things. They get their energy from metabolizing foods created by other living things. We all are indirectly 
or directly dependant on plants and chlorophyll containing life forms to live. 

Only chlorophyll containing organisms can take energy from the sun 
and convert it to chemical energy. 

All other forms of  life on the surface of the earth depend on chlorophyll containing
 life forms for  fuel for their lives. Both the animal kingdom and the fungus kingdom
 live off these chlorophyl containing energy sources. 

Most funguses live off dead things or plants.  Others live off and in living animals 
and plants. Every animal species developed in close proximity to these fungi. 
As we became who we are, they changed and adapted as well. 

Candida Albicans is a specific fungus that lives on a human host.  Many other living things like Candida, living within each of us  are specifically developed for us.

      Within each cell in our bodies, is a specific type of bacterium.

 Mitochondria are bacteria that developed to live within our cells. 
These bacteria, which are not really considered bacterium, but 
organelles and a vital part of each cell, are essential to life. 

They create and make all the energy of life for us.  It's passed  from parent to child. 

We think that since babies grow within the body of the mother, that the inoculation 
of this form of bacteria is more from the mother rather than being an equal mix of inheritance from the mother or father as are most characteristics. 
The type and genetics of the mitochondria affect the energy use of the offspring. 

     Many other examples of specific synergistic life forms are incorporated into our being. Every cell of our bodies contains a number of mitochondria. 

Other organisms have maintained an independent state and live within 
us in a symbiotic relationship.  In the colon we all start our lives 
with the implantation of Lactobacilus bifidus acidophilic bacteria.

Again we quote from others:  "We get this from our mother's breast when we begin nursing. It is the type of bacteria present on her breast in good health. 
These bacteria are vital for good health, and are the first colony of bacteria 
that sets up in our colons. It is present on our mother's breast because 
it is a bacterium specifically developed to help digest her milk.
  
We do not get this essential-to-life bacteria from pasteurized of other sterilized foods.   As we eat other raw foods in a natural state,  we get the bacteria and other
 living things that are meant to be consumed with our food.  

As babies grow they add bacteria that are specific to beans, broccoli, squash etc.  
This happens  if they eat some of these foods in a living state. 

If we cook everything, establishing good digestion may be difficult.
 It may be impossible. 

To completely digest  food it is necessary to have healthful, friendly flora to complete the last phase of assimilation. The presence of synergistic bacteria,  yeast and other life forms within and on the foods themselves as they grow  and develop in nature are important to duplicate within  our digestive tracts for complete digestion.

Nature never designed us to eat cooked or sterile foods. These may be safer in the short run. No harmful microbes are consumed.  Still, in the end it causes chronic disease by causing a deficiency of essential friendly flora in the digestive tract.

     It is a modern adaptation of man to eat cooked foods.

This was made necessary when man began to consume animal-based foods.
 
We  have trouble with animal products, our digestive tracts are not designed 
to consume animal proteins other than mother's milk as babies. 

Our teeth are not fangs as are carnivores. Our colons are much larger and longer than carnivores just as are other herbivores. We do not have the necessary acid in our stomachs to digest meat.  To live on these foods we  must alter them to make them digestible.  Meat and other animal products are unhealthful to eat raw. 

When we eat the flesh of an animal, we must usually cook it well done. 
Our stomach acid will not break it down or destroy the harmful bacteria 
as a carnivore's stomachs would do.  

Cooking it well done is better, if you are going to consume meat products. The cooking denatures the proteins making them easier to absorb and causes the bacteria and most other life forms  to die helping to prevent disease.

      Cooking of vegetable source foods in not usually necessary or good. We conceived the idea of disease being spread by raw foods over thousands of years. The notion is based on consumption of animal-based foods. 

Animal foods do carry disease.  

OK = from others:  "Those of us who become living foods vegetarians quickly learn that we just don't get food poisoning, unless we are unfortunate enough to eat in a location in which the restaurant or host prepares salads or raw veggies  following
 the preparation of animal source foods on the same preparation area
 contaminating the vegetables or any other foods one prepares there..

     This is not to say that a vegetable can't be rancid, poisonous or unhealthful to eat.

 It is just that with adequate use of the nose and a little common sense the risk 
was considered not worth mentioning in older medical texts before modern
 food processing could hide toxic food odors, tastes and appearances.  

In living using a diet that is closer to nature as is a raw, living vegan diet our natural instincts honed over billions of years of development come fully into play. 

We select wholesome, ripe, non diseased fruits and vegetables. 

We reject things that are rotting or look, smell or feel bad.  Our eyes, noses and 
senses of touch guide us to healthful appearing food sources. It is not as
 easy to do this when we cook these foods and change their nature by
 cooking or using flavor covering spices. 

It is almost impossible to be guided by our instincts if we use 
animal products in our diet.

     It is not a good idea to take into our bodies the organisms that are 
trying to digest the meats of other animals. 

Those bacteria with a little encouragement will also consume us. 

Clearly cancer viruses are such organisms. 

As all vegetables contain on and in them the necessary organisms designed
 by nature to return them to the soil on their deaths, so do animals. 

We are by design meant to consume vegetables and those organisms
 that come with them. 

In our digestive tract we (in the colon) have a large region designed for these organisms to live and help us with the digestion of the foods we eat. The forms of disease that kill plants are not often the same forms of diseases that kill animals.

 Plants have cancer viruses.   Animals have cancer viruses. These viruses are generally very kingdom  specific.  It is very rare for a plant virus to attack an animal.

 We are specifically designed to live in harmony with them.    It is much less likely that
 a plant virus will be designed to attack us.  It is well accepted that viruses that 
are usually fairly species specific can make the jump between animal species.  

This is  particularly true  if the species are close relatives.  AIDS is an example of this. 
It is a common virus of chimpanzees, and seems to cause them no harm. 

It made the jump to man, and is fatal to us.
  

     Others that may be more closely related carry even more dangerous diseases. 

The Europeans were very successful in colonizing the Americas and 
they were not at all successful at colonizing most of Africa and Asia. 
All sorts of reasons have been given for this. 

Only in the Americas and isolated island cultures did white man virtually drive the indigenous peoples into extinction. This is constantly presented in a military sense.

 However, our military conquest had little to do with it. 

American Indians tend to have very little resistance to white man's diseases. 
More Indians died from swine flu than all other causes. 

Others died from pneumonia, diphtheria and other diseases. 

The contagious diseases carried by Europeans inoculated into what had been an isolated human culture within a few decades erased whole cultures from the earth.

 So that white men came to dominate North America and most of South America both in numbers as well as by conquest. We fared much more poorly in Asia and Africa.

 The diseases of those areas were more lethal to us than they were to indigenous populations.  In whole regions of Africa, populations were cleared off. 

Settlers were sent to colonize. Within a few generations the white settlers were 
extinct and the local populations had re grown due to the inability of 
Caucasians to survive in those climates with the local diseases.

      We all carry life forms within us. 

We spread them in our waste, breath and just by our very presence. We also carry them  in our flesh.   Long ago all successful cultures gave up eating human flesh, 
as a bad thing to do. There was far more than just moral reasons for this.   
The diseases of other humans, their cancers, etc., are very likely to 
be transmissible through consuming their flesh. 

I can think of no cannibalistic culture which we note for good health or long life spans. It would be a natural selection that cannibalistic tribes would be displaced
 by more healthful tribes not practicing this diet. 

Serious diseases specific to cannibals  are found no place else.   

Kuru Kuru is such a disease in New Guinea, where people die of this 
serious brain disorder, passed from generation to generation 
by consuming virally infected human brains. 

Similar neurological  diseases are found among meat eaters. 

There is a brain disease among sheep that has been found to transmit to 
some  mutton eaters. Mad cow disease is another one of these brain diseases 
that is transmissible to man via consuming infected meat products.

     Cancer viruses are not the only things that can come to us through 
the animal products we consume. 

Parasites come from other animals. 

As similar creatures these disease causing life forms may make the jump to us  when we eat their original host.  Each animal has their own fellow travelers.  When we die, we are returned to the soil by life forms we have within us.  This is the designed  purpose. We also tend to carry those chronic  disease  causing life forms, that when our useful purpose here on earth is done,  are intended to remove us from the living.   Cancer is a universal plant,  human and animal disease.

 All animals, and  all living things for that matter, have a designed maximum life span.

If war, famine, accidents or other cause of death beyond the control of the immune system fail to take us with them within an appropriate amount of time, the immune system turns off  = allowing cancer or some other disease we carry within us to develop and remove us from life at the appropriate time.

     No reliable records of anyone living much beyond 120 years have been found. 

On examination most patients of great age do suffer from some form of cancer 
as they approach this natural limit. 

One theory is that we carry with us the cancer viruses that are meant to take us away when we have reached beyond our useful life span. Another theory is that we 
catch cancers in some way from the environment.  

Cancer has been shown to be a virus in all animal studies. 

For each cell in the body there are on average at least two viruses. The introduction into the body of viruses and life forms not native to our species  may alter the natural design of things, creating chronic or fatal diseases long before the normal design of nature. The Bittner virus associated with breast cancer may be such a virus.  
It is often present in the milk of mammals.                                     

     Eating the virus containing bodies or body products of other animals is 
one way to very effectively introduce them to our bodies. 

  In consuming  animals we consume viruses and those can enter our bodies. 

 If they are harmful, then there is a chance of developing that viral disease. It is no surprise that the rate of cancer is much higher among meat eaters and milk 
drinkers than it is among vegetarians.  Some of it has to do with the general
 higher level of health of vegetarians due to higher consumption of fiber,
 no cholesterol in the diet etc. Another part of this is that vegetarians do not
 have the exposure to cancer viruses that meat eaters have.

     The risk of consuming an animal is greater if that animal is a closer species since all the life forms in and on that animal are by nature closer to those that effect us. 

In this system ----  disease can be passed via milk and milk products rather easily. 

The rate of breast cancer (for example) is very low in non milk consuming
 cultures, and it is high in societies that drink milk. 

To eat another mammal or their body products exposes  you to potentially carcinogenic viruses.  This applies most specifically to tissues, such as
 milk from infected breast tissue causing breast disease via viral infection 

To eat a bird is of less risk to breast tissue.  They do not have breast tissue. 

Fish are even  less of a risk generally. 

Fish are even  less similar to man with greater variation in tissue types. Their viruses are less likely to be viable in the human body. Never, however, is the consumption
 of animal flesh or products as safe as getting nutrients from vegetarian sources.

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     Understanding this model helps to understand many diseases. However,  candidiasis was not common in vegetarians nor meat eaters a few decades ago. 
Now it's more common in meat eaters and milk drinkers and less so in vegetarians. 

It is important that we begin to think in terms of other organisms living in harmony or non harmony within our bodies based on a natural order of things.  

In all the eons that man has been consuming meat, candidiasis was a very rare disorder until after the 1940s. Something changed during that decade that 
caused this disease to become common.  

If we keep looking at normal function, we will begin to see why. 

With each raw food eaten we inoculate the colon with bacteria and other 
life forms which work in symbiosis with using this food source. 

When we kill it by chewing and destroying the life force within the food, 
we open the door to those symbiotic life forms designed 
to digest this food and return it to the soil. 

We have a system in which we break down sugars in the mouth. 

Acid in our stomachs breaks down proteins. 

In the small intestine various solutions and enzymes are added to break down  and absorb most of the rest of the nutrients. This is not complete without 
the final stage of digestion in the colon! 

We can survive without a perfect synergetic colony of life forms in our colons. 
We will not feel as good. We will not be as healthful. 

Nevertheless, we can live a shorter, more pain filled existence.

     Other organisms cannot do this. Termites cannot digest wood. They live by eating wood. Within their digestive tracts are wood digesting bacteria. 

Without these bacteria they cannot live at all.  One of the sure fire ways to kill 

termites is to give them an antibiotic that kills these bacteria. 

They then die of starvation surrounded by and filled with their natural food.  

We on the other hand can digest most of the  things we eat tolerably well with 
our own digestive juices. We do not die if our colonic flora is off balance. 

We just do not live as long or as well.

Every vegetable or other food you put in your mouth will have residues reaching
 the colon. Nature intends us to greet these residues with a healthful colony
 of bacteria designed to complete the digestion process.  

There will always be residues however that will not digest without this helpful flora, and who knows how many of mankind's serious illnesses are 
directly related to imbalances in this flora. 

There are many.  Candida is one.

 No herbivore or omnivore digestive system is designed to break down all
 the nutrients in the food. The consumption of raw (not sterilized) foods is 
important to create and maintain this second line of digestion in the colon. 

In the colon these residues of our foods go through a final sweep
to remove nutrients and manufacture others for our use. 

To do this:   there is supposed to be a healthful colony of bacteria in the 
cecum which breaks down the food still further and makes products
 useful to the body from these residues.

     The effect on health is shown by explaining a common misconception about vegetarians. It was taught earlier in this century,  that vegetarians could not be healthful because they needed meat to get all the necessary nutrients to survive.

 This has not proven true at all. 

However partial vegetarians or those who do not have healthful flora in their colons
 do need supplementation. Vegans, who consume no animal products, do not. 

The use of products containing antibiotics kills some essential flora in the colon. Without that flora surviving as a vegan is impossible. 

One essential nutrient is vitamin B-12. This is not a vegan vitamin, and our own
 bodies do not make it any more than termites make the enzymes necessary 
to digest cellulose. It was taught in our health universities and colleges that 
unless vegans took B-12, they would develop pernicious anemia and die. 
Then along came the 60s and 70s. 

From others: "Thousands became vegan, eating no animal products. I myself have
 not had any animal source foods for more than six years nor have I taken any B-12 supplements. If we did not have, nor could not make B-12, all of us should have developed deficiency symptoms. In fact the exact opposite happens. 

Those of us who are living-foods  vegans rarely have any nutritional deficiency symptoms. The key to this is that friendly bacteria in the colon 
make vitamin B-12.  We absorb this B-12  into the body. 

We develop no deficiencies of this vitamin due to a symbiotic relationship with
the bacteria in our colons. Perhaps we have more in common with 
termites in our digestive needs than we realize.  

We also almost never have candida infections, unless our doctors give us 
antibiotics and we fail to restore normal balance following this therapy.

This was one of the first great clues as to the cause of candidiasis. 

Living foods vegans can get it— but only if exposed to exogenous antibiotics. 

It just doesn't happen with us unless there is a cause in our environment that is
 not usually there.  Another clue was the timing of the introduction of antibiotics
 to allopathic medical care. Antibiotics were developed and began to be 
commonly used in medicine in the 1940s.

This was just when candidiasis first became more than a very rare medical occurrence. Then in the 50s and beyond, a tidal wave of women's yeast 
infections began. That epidemic continues today with even more 
symptoms attributed to candidiasis. 

What changed?

Well, first, obviously, the introduction of antibiotics paralleled the rise in yeast infections. In fact initially a prescription for antibiotics directly preceded almost all yeast infections.  Yeast infections  followed a course of antibiotics by a few weeks.  It was not until much later that women and others began to have yeast infections when their physicians did not give them a course of antibiotics. If we look  first at the first cases, we will understand the main mechanism.      What do antibiotics do? They kill bad microbes.

Well, they kill microbes, good and bad.  A may be dying of pneumonia, the doctor
 prescribes penicillin shots and antibiotics.  In a few days that person is better.
 The shots ( as the antibiotics) killed the pneumonia bacteria in the lungs. 

  Viva antibiotics! 

     Antibiotics have ranges. Most antibiotics don't just kill pneumonia 
causing bacteria, they kill all sorts of related bacteria. 

Penicillin was a very broad scope killer of bacteria. It kills them everywhere. 

Where would these bacteria be? Many live in the colon.  Normally  several pounds of healthful bacteria live there waiting for food to be broken down. When you take antibiotics many of these are killed.  All antibiotics seem to kill some colonic flora. They always cause  an imbalancing  of the natural process in this area.

Following a course of antibiotics you should always take acidophilous 
and eat a lot of raw veggies to restore this lost bacteria. 
Antibiotics imbalance the flora in the colon. 

Candidiasis is a disease caused by this imbalance. 

What they do not kill is yeast. 

Most fungi are very resistant to antibiotic therapy. 

So that when you take antibiotics the other bacteria are killed. 
The candida albicans, which is normally present in a  small
 quantity, survives antibiotic therapies. 

Nature abhors a vacuum. 

If you destroy all the other bacteria, then what is left = multiplies and grows to 
fill the void. This is why candida infections follow antibiotic therapy.

     It is only slightly more complicated than this. 

The candida in the colon multiplies because we need it to digest foods present
 in the colon. The ratio of candida to other bacteria becomes very skewed. 

This is in the colon. If it remained there digestion and colonic function would 
be altered, but the vaginal infections would not be such a big deal. 

However, the immune system and the candida also have a relationship.
 
When they exist in a small quantity in the colon, the immune system sort of    
 tolerates them there, but does not allow them to grow well in other locations. 

However when they profusely take over the colon, this  alters  the  response from the immune system.

     The immune system is sort of like an analogy of the cavalry and the red men. 
Out rides the cavalry looking for Indians to round up. They can't find any on
 the US side of the border, so they slip across into Canada. 

An Indian pops up on the top of a hill wearing a red coat and yelling disrespectful remarks about the soldiers. The commander sends two men to get him.
 
He disappears over the hill, followed by the troopers. A few minutes later he is back, yelling again. The commander dispatches ten troopers to get him. The same thing happens. Then over the side of the hill crawls back one of the troopers shouting---
 "Go back, there's a bunch of Canadian Mounties over here, and the Indian is 
one of them". This is followed by a quick retreat back to the US side of the 
border and a general order to stay on US soil and leave that Indian
 and anyone else in a red coat  alone.

     The immune system puts up a huge fight against foreign invaders of the body. 

It tends to make a general respond, like sending in a few troopers,  to small invasions unless a mug shot of the invader has been filed from a previous engagement. If such mug shots exists, then the immune systems command centers make decisions.
 
If the mug shot is of a known bad guy, it starts an all out attack. If it is of 
someone to leave alone, like the Indian in a red coat,  it stops all the responses.
  
It also tends to give up if there is a message from some monitoring station
 that there are too many invaders within the body to fight off. 

This happens if there is just too much infection or a growth is too large to handle. Another situation is that the body sets levels of tolerance.

     The example of the Indian in a red coat is appropriate.  
We as a nation do not round up Canadian nationals in Canada. Treaties are involved. 

 We get in all sorts of trouble if we ignore their laws in their country. The immune system may mount a huge response no matter what the local situation, if it is 
within the jurisdiction of the body. However if the body views the situation 

as being on foreign soil the situation is different. 

The immune system is no different.

 We have to set different levels of response depending on the situation 
and the situation both within and without the body. We also have 
an area of foreign territory deep within our bodies. 

The body has set up a system in which the immune system controls  its responses based on the activities within and without the body.  The skin and external organs are loaded with immune tissue and maintain  an active and hostile response to all invaders that enter the body through  these unauthorized channels. Then there are internal immune  stations that respond to internal situations.    The colon is major among those monitoring stations.  It is very rich with sensing membranes that check all the proteins in the  colon and report these back to the immune system command centers.

This is a very special point of interpretation. The colon is the end of the production
 line for general discharge of the bodies by-products and indigestible waste.

     The anatomy of this area is very clear, as is the design of the immune tissue. 
The relationship of this to immune response has been observed by many colon therapists and alternative doctors, but has not been the subject of 
that much paid scientific investigation in recent history. 

It is why many of  believe the colon is an important key to health. 

It is why its function has such an important effect on the treating of  infectious, 
allergic, abnormal tissue growth and other disorders related to
 immune system dysfunction.

     The colon immune system is  sequestered. 

It generally has no incoming contact with the outside world. 

The colon is on the end of the digestive tract. 

It is not naturally in contact with the environment. 

The body has processed the contents of the colon and these are ready for release.

Checking its contents is a good diagnostic indicator of the function of the body, 
just as checking the exhaust in an automobile tells  how the car is running. 
The contents of the colon are very much an indicator of how efficiently 
the body is working and whether it needs a tune-up. 

Setting the response of the immune system from this rear echelon position makes
 this a logical place for setting the  response levels  of the immune system. 

It is also an area that is within the body, but is also excluded from the body. 

Any thing that has made it through the GI tract to this point is not very susceptible to attack by the digestive system. So it is a good monitoring system for the body 
to judge what level of response is appropriate to proteins found in the colon.

      The walls of the colon are lined with an extensive system of immune system monitoring cells. These cells report back to the control systems of the
 immune system all the bioactivities in the colon, but do not try to
police them as they would if they were within the tissue of the body.  

Candida being there does not mean it will be tolerated in other locations.

 The problem is that when  an overgrowth of candida-in-the-colon reaches a certain
stage, reporting cells send the message that they are being overwhelmed. 

At that point rather than fighting back,  the immune system tends to say— 
hey, there are too many of them.  

It turns off its response to that particular bio entity. 

When the body does this it also does it in other areas, including the tissues of the body =  the immune system stops destroying candida.  

Our Indian friend in a red coat can then safely move about and set up 
colonies in Canada or the United States.  

At that point  the body develops the disease of candidiasis.  It is not the result of candida albicans being present in the colon.  It is the result of TOO MUCH candida albicans being present in the colon.  If  you have candida, or a yeast infection based on this fungus,  treating it is easy. You should get better in a few weeks.  If the diagnosis is wrong, you will just be healthier for having undergone the treatment.  It is one of those wonderful treatments that just generally makes you healthier, and is a good idea to do even if you have no symptoms.  It takes us back to the first law of good heath care.   Your life style comes into play.

     The paradigm of healing applies to treating candidiasis. The goal is not to destroy bad guys. It is not to eradicate candida. It is to restore balance and function, 
so that the body can take that new balance and heal itself.

 In fact the most common reason for seeking treatment of candidiasis is persistent vaginal yeast problems. I never did any treatment of the vagina.

Seek  balance in the flora within the body. Your own body corrects the vaginal problems once the balance of nature is restored in the colon. 
Return the body to its normal state.

     From the 1950s,  yeast infections began to occur in people who were not taking antibiotics from their doctors. You don't have to take antibiotics in pill form any more! All you have to do is drink milk, use dairy products or eat domestic animals! 

After World War II, some enterprising veterinarian, thought to themselves, "If antibiotics kill and prevent bacterial disease in humans, what about animals?" 

They do work to prevent disease in animals. Chickens and other animals placed in coops or stock yards, packed in like sardines, are rather susceptible to disease.

 In fact, animal-based foods were too  expensive for massive consumption, in earlier generations because we could not raise them in such close proximity.  

Chickens and poultry for one, required a lot of space because they tended to catch diseases and die if packed too tight. The use of antibiotics on whole chicken farms and other locations, in which animals were packed together, made it possible to raise large concentrations of animals on very little land. This is why we can eat more animal-based foods in our nation than any other people have done in 
the history of the world, outside the arctic regions.

     However, that meat is treated with antibiotics. 
Never has such a food been consumed by humankind before. 

It may be treated with antibiotics. 

Poultry is the most common source of antibiotics, but it is very erratic. 

The FDA says that farmers are allowed to introduce a specific amount of antibiotics
 to their flocks in their feed. They are supposed to add this each day and measure
 it carefully. If you ever find a farmer that does this, let me know. 

We could build some sort of monument to him or her. What farmers do in practice is watch their flocks. If they are healthful, they ad no antibiotics to the feed. 

If they start to get sick they ad buckets of antibiotics to the feed
 until they are infection free again. 

This is the most sensible way to do it. 

If you do it routinely then the tendency to develop antibiotic resistance
 strains of disease organisms increases greatly. 

This is done with all domestic animals to some extent. 

The problem is that you may eat chicken for a year and have no problem. Then you eat one piece that contains enough antibiotics to kill all the bacteria in Los Angeles, and you get an out break of vaginitis or other candida problems. 

There is no way to know when that is going to happen.  If people continue to eat domestic meat or milk products =  candidiasis will return. 

Sometime it will just happen, when they buy that one piece 
of chicken or carton of milk loaded with antibiotics.

     Eliminate all milk and domestic animal products. 

 Wild food does not have antibiotics in it. 
It is permissible when you are considering only candidiasis. 

Elimination of this range of foods and being sure that you are not on a 
prescription for antibiotics at the moment, insures that you should 
not be killing off the flora as we try to rebalance it.

     This rebalancing requires the consumption of as much of our diet as possible in a living uncooked form. Vegetables and fruits consumed in their living state have
 all the friendly bacteria on them to establish colonies of good bacteria 
in the colon that will aid in their digestion when we eat them. 

If we must cook them, at least eat some raw, to help inoculate the colon with
 these bacteria. This is especially important with those foods generally
  eaten, as the colon must constantly deal with these. 

Another way to be sure that the colon has healthful bacteria is to predigest  some foods in their own juices, thereby growing a larger colony  of these bacteria before consuming them.  This is kraut. Old German and Eastern European kraut is fixed just this way. Cabbage, etc., is digested in its own juice and eaten fermented. This food  contains a great deal of healthful live bacteria and should be taken  occasionally, especially if  still consuming cooked, dead food.

     The colon is the main site of candida albicans. It may be present in the rest of the body, but it is possible for pounds of it to be present in the colon. 

If this is removed and replaced with normal flora, the body's own immune
 system should turn on and remove the candida from
 other locations like the vagina. 

Colon cleansing is very important!  The colon is wonderfully designed to be 
at once sequestered from the environment, and capable of being 
painlessly washed out with injections of warm water.  

If you just change your diet and eliminate the sources of the antibiotics you 
should get better. This can take years, as normal flora battles it out with the 
large colony of candida albicans in the colon trying to reestablish itself.  

If you want to shorten this recovery time and go back to a normal life in
 a few days or weeks rather than years, it is necessary to
 remove the candida from the colon.   

If you have candida, get well. Go natural.           If we as a people continue to reject antibiotic soaked meat products, or better yet just stop buying animal products  altogether, there will be an outcry. There will be increased subsidies to keep these farmers and their supply lines in business, but eventually, they will wash their hands and enter new industries.  We may all be the better for it.    With changes in diet you can forget ever having had it.